| EPSRC Reference: |
TS/I000631/1 |
| Title: |
Building Banter |
| Principal Investigator: |
Bannon, Dr F |
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| Department: |
Sch of Performance & Cultural Industries |
| Organisation: |
University of Leeds |
| Scheme: |
Technology Programme |
| Starts: |
01 September 2010 |
Ends: |
31 August 2012 |
Value (£): |
12,664
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Building Ops & Management |
Design Processes |
| Energy Efficiency |
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| EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications: |
| Construction |
Environment |
| Energy |
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Summary on Grant Application Form |
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By exploiting and co-opting existing technologies, and developing a user-centred design approach,the project team will address energy efficiency through the delivery of 'conversational tools', that use existing technologies combined with interventional solutions that are simple, novel and playful in nature. It will augment existing building systems with additional low-cost sensors, and use information processing approaches to make sense of this data, and to detect novel and unusual patterns within this data. It will communicate interventions to the users of the building through intuitive and engaging display techniques and actuators (eg a mobile phone sends a 'shiver' to an employee passing an open window that should be closed). These interventions will initially be informed by a systematic data gathering process including a review of published evidence and use of current models. From this we will identify key energy saving opportunities and challenges within the trial building, and capture the perspectives, values and drivers of users' energy saving choices.The project will seek to develop fundamental and generalisable approaches to monitoring and sensing building use and energy consumption. It will demonstrate them within the context of the industrial setting provided by Federal-Mogul. It will make use of the innovative user-centred interventions developed by Vitamins and the Universities of Dundee and Southampton, which are in turn informed by a systematic data gathering process including a review of published evidence and use of current models performed by Arup and University College London. It will interface with the sensing and interaction hardware developed by Moixa Energy and More Assoicates. The research to be carried out by the University of Leeds is summarised below:Research into effective modes of engagement for behaviour change / utilising expertise to inform the design process:The research process will, in the first instance, include site visits to observe the flow of human movement and the movement styles /patterns of the site occupants. Information will be gathered regarding the site-users' relationship to the existing site in relation to their expectations, hopes and aspirations for the future predicted site as a means for developing person-centred information and subjective responses which will inform the development of the new site's interactive 'conversational' content. This research information and data will then feed into the development of site-user focus group sessions, the results of which will then feed into the development of the design process. As the project develops, the research process will incorporate a process of observing and exploring the site-users' exploration and usage of the emerging 'conversational tools' informed by observation and analysis of the site-users' engagement with the solutions and prototypes informed by theories and expert knowledge of of spatial awareness and kinaesthetic empathy. The intention is to develop very quickly a large number of ideas from lots of angles, and that these would be concurrently 'tested out' with the people in the building through description, conversation, and hacking very quick mock ups of the proposals (undertaken by Moixa / Vitamins - / Leeds / Arup), resulting in a shortlist of tested communications that will be effective in prompting behaviour change, and that represent an innovative and fresh approach. Towards the end of the project,the research will focus on the evaluation of the process and the preparation of an academic paper / conference presentation.
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| Project URL: |
http://www.moixaenergy.com/energy.asp |
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| Organisation Website: |
http://www.leeds.ac.uk |